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Poured into a tulip glass a slightly hazed burnt orange tinged golden with a sticky one finger white head atop,great lacing and form to the head.Big grapefruit rind in the nose just really fresh and it jumps out at ya,light herb and sweetish alcohol round out the nose.Grapefruit-like hops and sharp bittering hops dominate the palate with sweet alcohol as well,it's sweet but not as in your face sweet as many of the style.It's sticky and sharp like an imperial ipa should be,it's not to sweet just a great beer.

The beer pours a hazy golden orange color with a white head. The aroma has some nice grapefruit and apricot notes, as well as a touch of biscuit malt. The flavor is similar, with a lot of oranges and other tropical fruit coming through. The bitterness is fairly low, but the hop flavor really shines. Medium mouthfeel and medium carbonation.

A - Pours a beautiful hazy orange. 2 finger head dissipates slowly. Leaves some lacing, but not much sticks to the glass. Looks very nice.

Smell - Whoa. This beer smells unlike any IPA I can remember. Giant pine notes upfront. Smells like pine-oil resin. I can't recall a beer with so much piney smell right up front. Citrusy too, with plenty of grapefruit and orange, but all these other aromas take a back seat to the pungent pine.

Taste - Again, lots of pine, hop oils and citrus. The citrus is all grapefruit and orange. I'm getting some black pepper notes, too and a nice, bitter finish. It's very astringent. The 10% ABV is noticeable, but I'm O.K. with that. This beer is really bitter, and I'm enjoying it.

Mouthfeel - Carbonation is very nice. Not too much, not too little. All the hop oils make this a rather oily-feeling beer. Smooth, but I'm afraid it might not be very drinkable. I only have one bottle, and I don't think I'd follow this one with another.

Overall - A really good beer, and certainly worth trying, simply because of the rather unusual smell and flavor (for an Imperial IPA). I don't think the drinkability is very high with this beer, and that keeps me from giving it any higher marks. It's a solid effort, and an interesting one. Give it a try.

Edit: Read somewhere that this beer was 300 IBU's. Would love some more information as it rolls in.

A pint served in a L'achouffe chalice at Accent Lounge, enjoyed in my big-ass corner table (it's a rather quiet, um, afternoon here.)

This beer appears a somewhat muddled medium golden amber hue, with one thick finger of dense, creamy beige head, which takes its time sinking away, leaving a nice array of webbed grotto lace around the glass.

It smells of heavy biscuity caramel/toffee confectionery, orange cream, some further brown sugar, and heady piney, leafy hops. The taste is sweet bready caramel malt, kind of doughy, yet with toasted biscuit notes in there too, all rather unusually overwhelming for that pungent citrus and pine hoppiness lurking at the fringes. A slight booze astringency simmers menacingly below.

The bubbles seem more or less AWOL, just barely registering a blip here and there, the body showing a sturdy medium-heavy weight, and smooth in that caramel pudding manner (once a jigger or two of brandy has been surreptitiously added). It finishes on the sweet side of Caramel Toffee City, tempered a wee bit by a persistent biscuit/cracker breadiness, and of course those tamped down, bitter citrus and forest floor hops.

A surprisingly quaffable DIPA, given the tremendous up-front sugary slant. However, the hops pull a respectable Rudy, aided by one of the most understated, but still influential 20-proof dances that I have yet encountered. Recommended, but my God, do get somethin' salty to nosh on whilst enjoying it.

Bottle at Blue Monk. Cloudy grapefruit coloured body, with a good amount of head and lace. Hoppy aroma. Grapefruit and orange citrus taste. Big IBU but not a palate eraser, though a big astringent. Not bad as a double IPA, though not overly complex. Good drinkability.

Enjoyed at a Mikkeller tap takeover at the Beer Revolution in Calgary (from notes)
A - hazy golden orange, one finger of light tan head that looked fairly creamy and held it own, left solid lacing
S - floral and grassy with some grapefruit, with biscuit and brown sugar in the background with faint booziness
T - toffee and bread maltiness are quickly overtaken by hop flavours of grapefruit, fresh cut grass, and pine resin, ending with a sweet-heat boozy kick
M - leaning on the heavier side of medium, fairly creamy start with a resiny character, dry's out somewhat with the alcohol heat and hops
O - it a big beast for sure, somewhat surprised at the heartiness of it for a high octane DIPA, but it ends up being pretty well balanced for the style

Poured from an 11.2oz bottle into an SA glass. Golden amber with more than two-finger head that receded into a medium cap. Really sticky lacing down the sides. Lots of biscuits in the nose along with pepper, resin and grapefruit. Very citrusy with resin present on the tongue...not as bold as the smell. A good bit of bitter aftertaste hangs around...mostly medium bodied with average carbonation. The smell and looks were promising, but we know it all comes down to the taste, and this one simply didn't live up.

330ml bottle. Pours a cloudy dark amber with a large long lasting off white head with very good head retention and lacing. Aroma and taste of sweet caramel malt, Belgian yeast, brown sugar,some dark fruit notes with hops bitterness. Palate is full body, smooth with good carbonation. This brew finishes with a full flavored caramel malt sweetness, a good amount of Belgian yeast, dark fruit and a fairly sharp lingering bitter hops flavor on the end with some brown sugar and molasses and yeast. Alcohol seems well hidden. Overall a very good, balanced and tasty brew.

Pours amber with a lasting head.
Nose shows pine, peach, lychee, soft alcohol and sweet clean malt.
Flavours are sweet at first with lots of clean malt after which a piny assault enters with accompanying bitterness. Very well balanced.
Could could be a little lighter.